Clothing bag



Sept. 12, 1939. N. WATERMAN CLOTHING BAG Filed Feb. 7. 1938 Nthan Waterman I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE y CLOTHING BAG Nathan Waterman, St.

one-half to Merton J. Stevens, St. Paul, Mln

Paul, Minn., assigner o Application February 7, 1938, Serial No. 189,022

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in garment bags, an object of the invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive and serviceable bag or paper or the like adapted to envelop a garment hung on an ordinary coat hanger, and one that by reason of its durability is capable of reuse following its initial application to a garment, as in a dry cleaning establishment, Where the bag would be furnished for protecting the cleaned garment until required to be worn.

Another object of the invention is to provide gether with the enveloping bag, through the medium of the hook on said hanger.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bag, as above, the construction thereof being such that the bag may be readily closed over a garment enveloped therein and easily and securely fastened in a durable manner to exclude dust from the bag.

An additional object of the invention is to closed and hanger.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, which will appear in the following description, the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

the same being shown as secured closed, and With an intermediate transverse portion thereof broken away.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevational View of the bag illustrated in Fig. l, the same being shown open, as for the application thereto or removal therefrom of a garment.

Referring to the drawing, wherein similar parts are designated by similar reference characters paper or the like of light and inexpensive construction. The body I of the illustrated bag is made from a sheet folded into the form of a iiat tube, the longitudinal (Cl. 20S-7) edges thereof being overlapped, as at II, and sealed together by means of a suitable adhesive at the back of the bag. This flattened tubular structure is preferably closed at the bottom thereof in any suitable manner, as by folding the lower marginal portion I2 of the structure upon the.

body thereof and gluing or otherwise securing such folded marginal portion'V in place. The mouth of the bag freely receives a garment hung on an ordinary coat hanger I3. rfhe upper marginal portion of the bag is marked along lines, preferably, as by score lines I4, defining linesof-fold converging upwardly from the side' edges of the bag to the upper edge thereof,said lines-offold being arranged to conform with the inclined shoulder portions I5 of the hanger. 'I'he upper corner portions of the bag are adapted to be folded forwardly on the score lines I4, or otherwise demarked lines, against the face of the bag. These corner portions of the bag constitute biased flaps I 6 which close the mouth of the bag, save for a limited central opening preserved to accommodate the shank I'I of the hanger hook I8.

Fastening means are provided for each of the biased flaps I6, such means for each of said flaps including a fastening string I 9 adhesively secured along one of its end portions to the overlying layer of the flap near the outer, wide end thereof, on a line at right angles to the line-offold of said flap, and throughout the greater part of the width of the flap. Said fastening means further includes a fastening button 20 suitably secured to the front layer of the bag. This fastening button 20 is located in alignment with the line of attachment of the fastening string I9 to the flap I6 and, consequently, occupies a relatively protected position further removed from the side edge of the bag than the locality of the attachment between said fastening string and flap. This disposition of the button 20 places it where it is comparatively free from impairment in the handling of the bag and such disposition of the button, in alignment with the line of attachment of the fastening string I9 to the flap I6, minimizes the possibilities of the tearing of the fastening string from the flap. The fastening string I9 is satisfactorily secured to the ap I6 by means of a strip of adhesive 1s pasted over the string and to the bag by stitching or otherwise suitably fastening the button to an adhesive patch 22 and, in turn, pasting the patch to the bag.

=1 2D, inset from the side edges of the The garment to be protected by my improved bag is hung on an ordinary coat hanger I3, the supporting hook I8 of which is caught over any convenient rail, hook or other supporting medium. The bag is held open to receive the suspended garment and is passed upwardly about the same, the biased flaps I6 being thereafter turned downwardly on their lines-of-fold to close the mouth of the bag, except for the limited 'central space which accommodates the shank II of thehook I8 of said hanger. With the flaps I6 folded into their closed relationship, the free ends of their respective fastening strings I9 are wound around their respective fastening button 20 as indicated in Fig. 1. Thus, the garment, on its supporting hanger, is completely enveloped within the bag and effectively protected. The attachment of the fastening strings I9 to the Wide, outer endV portions of the biased flaps I6, and the tightening of said strings between said flaps and their respective fastening buttons 20r on lines at right angles to their respective lines-o-fold, keep the flaps snugly closed and close the opening around the shank I1 of thegarment hanger to provide a dust proof bag and at the same time effectively preserving the connectionsbetween the fastening strings and flaps under strains tending to Vdisturb the folded flaps or impair said connections.

Further, the positions of the fastening buttons bag, afford protection to said buttons against impairing strains that otherwise might be imposed upon them were they to be located more nearly adja-V cent to said side edges of the bag.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that my improved bag structure is particularly advantageous in that it may be of especially inexpensive construction, yet highly serviceable and dur- Changes 1n the specic form of my invention, as herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of my invention. Y

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

. A dust proof reclosing bag for enclosing a gar ment carried upon a garment hanger, said bag comprising a attened tubular structure closed at the bottom and open at the upper end to form a mouth through which a garment supported on a hanger may be inserted, the corner portions at the mouth of the bag being of double thickness and being foldable upon the body of the bag along converging lines to provide biased closure iiaps and provide a close Vfitting opening in the bag through which the hanger extends, a holding device for detachably securing each flapin po sition, comprising a string having one end portion secured to the outer surface of the flap in its folded condition and a fastenersecured to the body of the bag and to which the free end por tion of the string may be detachably secured, said Y fastener being located adjacent the flap to cause the stringwhen applied thereto to draw the flaps toward the hanger and close the opening in the bag through which the hanger extends.

NATHAN WATERMAN. 

